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Stacey Rozich Interview

Author BossnotBoss Category

Apr 16 2012

Presenting Stacey Rozich by BossnotBoss! Ok, so we’re not really presenting her, more like bringing her to your screen and into your room. Wow that sounds creepy, but probably not as creepy as Rozich’s art.

We are lucky enough to know this Seattle illustrator turned designer to snag this amazing bit of film to tell people what she is really all about. You may recognize her style from her recent work in the latest Fleet Foxes video, The Shrine An Argument. So watch this exclusive interview with Rozich and go to her site for more info and show her some mad love!

Lekan Jeyifo

Author Chris Category

Dec 09 2011

You ought to know by now that these colors are what initially caught my peepers by the collar and started slapping them back n’ forth in a cartoonish style yelling, “LOOK AT ME”, but the detail is what reeled me in quick like when you realize a woman’s laughing at your jokes, even when they’re not funny.

A few of these look like really official charts and diagrams of circuitry maps which is something I’m slowly becoming obsessed on. There’s just something about seeing design work at maximum efficiency that gives me a nice hard-on. It’s so frustrating to hear people think that design is just making things pretty……but that’s a whole other discussion.

Jeyifo has a ton of other work running around on his Behance, but they just don’t arrest me like these ones do, but you should see the rest of his work for yourself and maybe put me in my place.

Eric Frommelt

Author Chris Category

Nov 29 2011

Eric’s work is simple and complicated all at the same time and there’s something in my mind that wants to give that aspect a big hug and take it on a picnic. And you already know I’m digging on those colors so well I almost broke my mind shovel.

Most of these remind me a lot of an electrical diagram. Like those circuitry maps that have really geometric symbols and line that are either horizontal or vertical (I’ve recently become obsessed on those). But there are also elements that, although rigid and deliberate, seem very organic. It’s this strange and wonderful contrast that has gotten Eric’s work onto the great wall of BossnotBoss.

Be sure to peep more on his site!

Todd Selby x Christine Sun Kim

Author Ana Category

Nov 24 2011

We own the sound around us. It soothes, troubles, & assures us of the world we live in. There is more emotion in sound than we could ever fathom unless we couldn’t sense it. What is a sensation if you can’t detect it?

Christine Sun Kim doesn’t hear sound but she feels it. Born deaf, she has found a way to harness & express what she cannot grasp. Todd Selby (of The Selby!) showcases Christine’s deaf performance art & sonic experiments in this short but ever so intriguing new film. Definitely worth some of your time on this fine turkey day.

Check out more of Christine’s work here And check out more Todd Selby here

ps. This post is the first BnB post by our new author, Ana Nelson! Be sure to check out her site to learn about how awesome she is :)

Teagan White Illustrations

Author Chris Category

Nov 08 2011

What First grabbed my bull by the horn were the pieces that had no black, and instead used more colorful outlines (which I happen to love). Then as I traveled deeper into Teagan’s work, I discovered wonderous work meet with very little color.

I can’t get over how much detail is being pressed into each of her pieces. Some of these may seem simple, but could you imagine yourself recreating it? You’d have to really get your face in there to make sure you didn’t miss a stitch on a rabbit’s vest, or a knot on a branch that’s mostly hidden by other branches with other knots that you probably did miss.

There’s a ton more work to be seen on her site including some amazing typography, so go check it out right now!

Albrecht Dürer

Author Chris Category

Oct 27 2011

These images: Wood/copper cut (I know. I pooped myself too)

When you’re looking through blogs, you’re usually looking for what’s incredibly new. Well my man Albrecht is incredibly old, incredibly dead and incredibly incredible.

I first learned about him in design history and immediately idolized his dead dead amazing corps. But when I talk to designers I’ve met as I go through my career, they don’t know who I’m talking about and seem to get this look as if I’m talking about nothing more than a restaurant I liked because of the free bread.

He was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. WHAT! Plus the bastard makes a huge impact in late 15th century Europe in his 20s. (and he’s also regarded as the first landscape artist). And then this guy knew da Vinci! The Leonardo kind! What would you do if you met da Vinci? Slap him? I’d sure hope you’d do something funny.

There’s plenty more to be read about this man on Wikipedia if you’re so compelled to learn more in an attemp to gain the tricks to his greatness.

DADU SHIN

Author Selena Category

Oct 17 2011

Our okay-friend Wyatt sent me to DADU’s tumblr a few days ago and I instantly fell in love with the sketchbooks.

It’s quite an amazing thing, illustrator’s sketchbooks. They are so crazy and weird. I love the fact that none of it ends up being anything. It’s all preliminary bullshit and brain vomit. In fact, in some cases, I like the sketches better than the finished pieces. This would be one of those cases. After I looked through all of the books (all 109 pages, double-sided), I moved on to the commissioned pieces, and I was a bit disappointed. However, the sketches make up for the less-than-interesting finished article-style illustrations. Especially the fashion illustrations. They are exquisite! DADU should really try their hand at fashion design. Or at least textile design. Why do I always end up telling illustrators to go into textile design? Maybe because there are so few amazing fabric prints out there, I’m subconsciously dying for some great textiles. Besides, who better to design textiles than illustrators? I mean most textile designs are done by… well, terrible designers. Okay enough ranting about textiles. Maybe that needs to be a not Boss post… hmm.

So please check out DADU’s sketchbooks and don’t be afraid to look through the commissioned work, it is quite good.

Tim McDonagh

Author Chris Category

Oct 14 2011

There’s something funny about what these illustrations are doin’ to me. It’s like they’re just bait for an even larger story that has managed to just slip outside the frame. Alone in my cubicle I cry out, “What’s happening in this image!”

Maybe I’m trying too hard to find something that isn’t to be found. But I cannot ignore the way these images grab me by the balls and make me think. I believe that if something grabs my balls, it is to be shared with others. Because of this I have more posts and less friends.

Do yourself a favor and peep the rest of his work. Maybe do it before you go out this weekend, or do it of some well deserved hair of the dog. On the beach or at work; it’s good anytime.

DKNG Screen Print: Mammoth

Author Chris Category

Oct 13 2011

So just looking at this print and BTS vid, it’s no secret that this print is BOSS, but that’s not quite enough to merit a post; just one BOSS print. What really got me was that this print is only two colors!

I didn’t even think it was a screen print until during the BTS vid, I kept seeing flashes of bit maps flying all over the place and in an instant, disappearing. So when I peeped their site and got the confirmation on the screen print, my mouth went: “‘daaaamn.” Then, while expecting 4 color, maybe 3, I learned that it’s a 2 color print! Took me about 5 minutes to find my jaw on the floor and I was almost late for work.

Michael Latimer

Author Chris Category

Oct 06 2011

When on a road trip, flying at a hundred miles per hour, looking out the window, your eyes ping pong back and fourth trying to catch every new detail as it flies by, trying not to miss anything. You may have a similar reaction while soaking in these prints.

There’s such fine detail going on in these that I want to make sure that I see all the print has to offer me before moving on to the next one. But every time I go back to one I’ve already combed through, I feel like I always find something new that was hiding from me the first time; it’s kinda weird like that.

I love the colors of the prints with the spray background and the geometric foreground (I also think the juxtaposition of those two elements is amazing!). Michael’s color choices don’t seem to stray too far around the wheel in most of his work and I love that he made it work. There’s something special about knowing how to make like-colors work together in such abstract ways, instead of just looking boring and unfinished.

You’d be the smartest person in the world if you peeped his site after showing some love in the comments.